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“Print to Web: A major newspaper gives up printing on paper to publish exclusively online.”
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“Ain’t happening. There’s still too much revenue tied up in print and not enough online. A major newspaper — I’m taking this to mean a major metro — couldn’t support it’s current news operation with a digital-only strategy.”
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“I could see situations where smaller newspapers – especially college media outlets – seriously pursue an online-only strategy”
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“If a newspaper stops printing, about two-thirds of its operating expenses are thrown out the window. No more newsprint. No more carriers. No more circulation department, sales kiosks and all that.”
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“The Swedish paper Post- och Inrikes Tidningar is the oldest newspaper in the world. It has been published for 361 years, but as of tomorrow it will only be available as an online publication.”
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“What do users put on these pages they control? In some cases, they put their own content, but they also put pieces of other web pages on their pages. These “pieces of other web pages” are called widgets, badges, embedded players…”
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“There are some similarities between the current “bubble” and the last one that burst in 2000: Lots of incomplete and under-experienced teams, business models based more on eyeballs than cash flow, and a rash of incremental and “me too” deals.”
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“There is no reason to allow a small number of bullies to corrupt a community discussion forum. If your message boards, story comments, or blog has turned into the kind of place where decent people can’t have a decent discussion, bring the hammer down.”
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Digg and NewsTrust: “The two sites ‘are completely different,” said Dan Gillmor, director of the Center for Citizen Media and a NewsTrust adviser. While Digg strictly measures popularity, NewsTrust asks users to rate a story on the basis of 10 factors..”
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“In 2006 all media went social. Pretty much every newspaper, TV network and publication has wholeheartedly embraced these technologies. Newspapers have comments, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis and other forms of two-way communications.”
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“These are killer brands. We’re going to manage them as independent properties. We want to keep those communities happy and healthy.”
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“In print, readers can only be readers — and for many people, that’s still all they want to do. But online, readers can be participants and value creators — the community is interconnected, interactive, engaged.”
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“Digg, the news site that lets users rank stories by voting, has raised $8.5 million in fresh financing from existing backers, putting to rest for now speculation that it might sell to a bigger media player.”
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“Raw Sugar, an Israeli Del.icio.us clone, shut down. The company was privately funded. RIP.”
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Community and collaboration; mobile content; eco-friendly cars; Windows Vista; We’re all gamers now; erosion of privacy online; solar energy; on-demand movies; LED bulbs; GPS mobile phnones
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“The National Union of Journalsits just published the Witness Contributors’ Code of Practice to address the important issues raised by the phenomenon of ‘citizen journalism’.”
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“the change we’re facing is much bigger than just the obsolescence of the pageview, much more fundamental: Size doesn’t matter. Relevance, credibility, and attraction do. Instead of measuring quantity, we have to measure quality.”
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“Research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages.”
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“The Independent’s experiment with blogging has only been around for just over a month now, but I think it’s time move the to the central place of (dis)honour of the “blogwagon” hall of shame.”
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“The iimplicit web is all about the value that will accrue to an Internet user when their every action is tracked, recorded, and used to provide value back to that user. There is also a second order play when that clickstream activity is shared…”
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“Want to scare the bejesus out of a seasoned newspaper editor? Show him or her a list of the most-viewed stories on the paper’s Web site… People want sex, crime, violence, tragedy, celebrity and scandal.”
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“During initial testing with 100 advertisers and 66 newspapers, the volume of ad sales tripled Google’s expectations”
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“Media companies including News Corp’s MySpace and Viacom’s MTV Networks plan to cash in on the booming mobile phone market by offering a growing array of content and services.”
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John Battelle’s predictions for internet trends and the major web businesses in 2007.
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“someone will come along and start a new news business online… that competes with and perhaps even kills an old-style publication with far lower costs and greater efficiency and – thanks to networked journalism – greater reach of coverage.”
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“Online advertising revenues are expected to grow 31 percent, to $16.4 billion, in 2007, accounting for 6 percent of the overal ad market, according to eMarketer,”
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“Major print publication ceases publishing in print: …the real tipping point will happen when a publisher convinces top advertisers to value ads on the web-only pub as much (or nearly as much) as they valued the (overpriced) print ads.”
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Some enhancements to the Wall Street Journal’s site went live today: market data, staff blogs, video features, podcasts, forums, personalised homepage option, and better search.
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“Finding placeblogs just got a whole lot easier. Today, Lisa Williams debuted Placeblogger, an online resource that lists and showcases placeblogs — so far 713 from around the U.S., with a few scattered elsewhere around the globe.”
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“discover, browse, and subscribe to local blogs”.
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“Lisa Wiliams–the ace local news blogger from Watertown, MA, an occasional PressThink contributor and one of the sharpest people I know about all things Net–has launched a new site, Placeblogger.com…”
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